New to the Party - Unboxed Version #1

Yay, a new post! I know you all are super excited. I know I am because I get to share some more awesome dolls with you!

First I have to show you this Barbie. After I was finished with the hair dye experiment, I let the Barbie dry and then I put her in my Barbie Room, sans clothes. My hubby went in there the other day and he has this "thing" about seeing nude dolls. He hates it! And I hate it too because with so many cute outfits, you've just got to show them off!

So I picked out this Fashionista Closet "Cutie" outfit with some pink fashionista shoes. This is just too cute. What do you think?

Now, to the deboxed dolls from the big box I showed you last week!

My mom thought that I had this one but I assured her that I did not. This is the most beautiful Island Fun Barbie and you can definitely see that she is a great candidate for deboxing. She had been removed before but the box is severely damaged.

You can wear the skirt 14 different ways! That's always the fun of a sarong, all the different ways you can wear it.

She has a very pretty face.

Her hair has been put into 3 sections and it's still very curly. Awesome!

Uh oh! Looks like Island Fun Barbie had a little too much Island Fun Sun!

The back of the legs are "burnt" too!

Unfortunately, this doll has a case of the "sticky vinyl doll legs." The white spots was where the vinyl was touching the box. So friends, HELP! How do you get rid of the sticky legs? I would love to fix her up because it's starting to ooze onto her skirt and make it sticky too. 

Here is the back of the box showing the rest of the dolls from this line. And only in the islands, a seahorse comb! Do you have any other dolls that came with a seahorse comb? For me the only other one I have came with Mermaid Barbie. 

And....I SO want the Skipper. I have never seen another one with a smile like that. Cute!

Onto the next fabulous doll. This is Dance Magic Barbie. The cool thing is I have her!

 
I believe that she has been taken out of the box but not played with all. All the accessories are still attached to the cardboard and her hair is still rather curly!

That's a very peculiar place for the fan.....

At first I thought it was attached to her dress. But no, it is attached to her HAIR. Now I know she really hasn't been played with!

Now if any of you have Dance Magic Barbie (and has ended up storing her for years like this person and myself have) then you know that the fabric of this dress gets molded to the position the dress is in. So here is another question, do any of you have any ideas of how to get this fabric to lay down? I just can't get it to cooperate!

And I love the curly hair. My Dance Magic Barbie's hair has been brushed...and brushed...and brushed...

So here she is with what is called the "Hot Disco" outfit.

Her hair will take some more work. I might pick through it to get it to lay down better. I have this fear that I will brush out all the curls. It looks okay from the front, I might just leave it ;)

I decided to leave all her accessories attached to the cardboard backing for right now. Since I have all of her accessories deboxed already with my other doll. :)

So that is it for post 1 of the deboxed dolls. Next time I will have THREE dolls to post that I deboxed! They are the most fun of all!

If you can, please let me know if you have any remedies for the questions I posted. Thanks friends!

Until next time!

Color Change Fun!

Remember back to when you were a kid. Things that changed color or glowed in the dark were the best! I had glow in the dark stars on my ceiling and it was the coolest thing ever. I had a book of constellations and put them up in the exact way the stars were in the night sky. Then when I had to change bedrooms, my mom painted the ceiling in the new room a very pretty darker blue. Then I had 4 packages of sticker glow in the dark stars. Covered the ceiling! It was awesome!

I also went to an honor band once and we got shirts with the festival logo on it. The shirts were PLAIN black and white......

......until you got in the sun.

Fun times!!!

Well, I have a few Barbies that have color change fun!

Let's look at them and how they change shall we? 

One of my first Barbies. This is Wet n' Wild Teresa. I played and played with this Barbie. My friend and I thought we were so awesome because we both had Barbie dolls named after us! (Her name was Kira.) And this Teresa has the beautiful Steffie head mold.

I never ever put this doll in water. I put her suit in water a number of times. But today I will leave it on but never get the hair wet. The hair is so pretty I couldn't bear to put it in water!

Next we have Dance Magic Barbie. I love her little ballet slippers. She has lipstick that changes color!

Now we have Merliah the mermaid. I think her hair, tattoos and toe nails all change color.

Here is Bedtime Barbie. She closes her eyes.

The next three dolls I got last week at the thrift store. First is Ocean Friends Barbie and then Splash and Color Barbie. Both have color changing elements. The third is a Sleeping Beauty doll. She is like Bedtime Barbie and she closes her eyes.

If you'll remember last summer, I got Splash and Color Kira. My mom bought her for me at a yard sale. I was anxious to see if her hair still had the color change effect. Yep! Purple and blue to pink and white. Pretty! So today she will not be in the mix.

Now here they all are eagerly awaiting their turn at the sink.

First up is Ocean Friends Barbie. Her black wetsuit legs change under icy water! No? Doesn't seem to be working very well does it?

There, that's better. WARM water does the trick!

But almost as fast as it disappeared, it started to come back. Maybe she's a bath time toy so the warm bath will keep her wetsuit away.

Let's do Dance Magic Barbie next. She has pretty "Barbie" pink lipstick.

She comes with a human-sized lipstick case that has a washcloth tip. I soaked it in warm water and watched her lips change from Barbie Pink to Pale Pink. Awesome! (I actually like the Pale Pink better!)

I then used the same lipstick on Bedtime Barbie and watched her little eyes shut. So cute.

Sleeping Beauty also went to sleep.

Splash and Color Barbie's hair is not as dramatic as Kira's. Barbie's hair is pink and orange and the warm water changes it to yellow and light pink. Meh.

Teresa is an icy water girl. And from what I've experienced both today and in the past, when it says icy water, they really mean icy water. Here the cold water worked but then I ran an ice cube over her and got the color to change just a smidge more.

Swimsuit goes from light blue and yellow to dark blue and green! I always loved changing this as a kid.

Last but not least is Merliah. I took off her bottoms so we can see her tattoos more clear. And icy water brings out another set of purple tattoos behind the permanent pink ones. Fun!

But her hair did not change color. But watch when I run it under warm water.

It goes away! I also ran her tattoos under warm water and they went away too. So with Merliah, her pink streaks are supposed to appear with icy water. Apparently the ambient air in the house is just cool enough that her pink stays present. I did not see any noticeable change with her toenail color. Just a tad bit of pink but not enough to really even notice!

An ice cube awakened Bedtime Barbie and Sleeping Beauty.

And changed Dance Magic Barbies lips back to Barbie pink as the first picture shows.

Do you have any color change dolls that I don't have here? They are so much fun aren't they?

Until next time!